Owin Shutdown

Need to put some shutdown code in your Owin service? Here’s the non obvious way using CancellationToken.

using System;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Owin;
using Microsoft.Owin;
using Microsoft.Owin.Host.SystemWeb;

Gulp Speedup

Our gulp build task was taking a really long time. After a bit of investigation the problem was found to be minification / uglifying of files that were already minified (in this case jquery-1.11.1.min.js and others)

return gulp.src([sourceDir + ‘/*.js’])…

Owin Startup doesn’t start up

Ran into a problem integrating an Owin module (in the example its Hangfire) into an ASP.Net web API app where the Owin startup class just didn’t start. You should just have to add the following

[assembly: OwinStartup(typeof(MyNameSpace.Startup))]…

Javascript ForEach Gotcha

Here’s a simple gotcha for javascript forEach loops. Take a look at the below function doFoo. You would think that it would return true when it reaches the element in the array that equals 3 however it always returns false. ​

function doFoo() {
 var list =…

Unzip with Powershell

A lot of sites mention the below method to unzip files in Powershell. However in Window Server 2012 i was getting “You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression” at the .items()

// THIS CODE DOESNT WORK WITH WINDOWS SERVER 2012
function Extract-Zip
{…

Onscreen keyboard hides text

Found a problem in IOS where the onscreen keyboard would popup for an input element but it would push the content off the screen. This happened with an iPod touch when an ionic modal was full screen.

Making your app run with elevated UAC

In Visual Studio (I’m using 2013):•Right click on your solution
•Choose Add New Item
•Choose “Application Manifest File” (its in the General folder)

Crosswalk & network access

I had a problem accessing any external url using Phone Gap build and Crosswalk on Android. The problem turned out to be that Adobe made a new requirement as of cli-5.1.1 to include the whitelist plugin in your config.xml

<!-- New required plugin to allow…

Path to the executable

Here’s the easiest copy and paste for getting the path to your executable. This works great for regular executables

using System.Reflection;
using System.IO;

private string ExecutablePath
{
    get
    {
        return Path.GetDirectoryName(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location);
    }
}